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Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a novel, rapidly growing segment in the Cloud computing market. However, the diversity and heterogeneity of today’s existing PaaS offerings raises several interoperability challenges. This introduces adoption barriers due to the lock-in issues that prevent the portability of data and applications from one PaaS to another, “locking” software developers to the first provider they use. This paper introduces the Cloud4SOA solution, a scalable approach to semantically interconnect heterogeneous PaaS offerings across different Cloud providers that share the same technology. The design of the Cloud4SOA solution, extensively presented in this work, comprises of a set of interlinked collaborating software components and models to provide developers and platform providers with a number of core capabilities: matchmaking, management, monitoring and migration of applications. The paper concludes with the presentation of a proof-of-concept implementation of the Cloud4SOA system based on real-life business scenarios.
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Kamateri, E. et al. (2013). Cloud4SOA: A Semantic-Interoperability PaaS Solution for Multi-cloud Platform Management and Portability. In: Lau, KK., Lamersdorf, W., Pimentel, E. (eds) Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40651-5_6
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